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New Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection: exhibiting The Tracks & Discoveries of the most Eminent Navigators, to the Present Period

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Title: New Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection: exhibiting The Tracks & Discoveries of the most Eminent Navigators, to the Present Period
Creator: Cary, John, ca. 1754-1835, cartographer
Contributor: Cary, John, ca. 1754-1835, publisher
Kashnor, Leon, 1880-1955, seller
Museum Book Store
Date Created and/or Issued: 1801-12-21
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maps
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Kashnor notes,"A very fine map of the North-West Coast of America, showing the tracks of Cook, Vancouver, and La Perouse, from California to Alaska." This map is an apparent duplicate of 093:189 dated ten years later. Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 260 3.
Type: image
Extent: 1 map : hand col. 46 x 52 cm. on sheet 55 x 64 cm.
Identifier: 105:260 M
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/891
Language: English
Subject: World maps
Voyages around the world--Maps
Time Period: 1801
Place: World
W 180°
E 180°/N 85°
S 80°
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased en bloc by HEH from the Museum Book Store, June 7, 1927.

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